Coffman won't explain Obama "not an American" Comments
Published on May 23, 2012 by MiklosiforCongress
9News shot an exclusive video of Mike Coffman before he attended a closed door fundraiser. Reporter Kyle Clark asked Coffman repeatedly to explain his comments that denigrated his Congressional office and undermined the Presidency, but Coffman only repeated the same canned phrase over and over again.
Rachel Maddow reports on two stories in which public officials humiliated themselves and their state by publicly entertaining "birther" conspiracy theorists.
Speaking in Pocahontas, Iowa on Monday, May 21, Steve King compared immigrants to dogs.
King holds town hall in Pocahontas Location: 607 13th Street North, Pocahontas IA
Transcript:
King: ...You put out a beacon like the Statue of Liberty and who comes here? The most vigorous from every country that has donated legal immigrants to America. The cream of the crop. We've always had bird dogs around our place in our family there's a black lab and white lab a yellow lab, and my brother has a chocolate lab. Well you go in and you look at a litter of pups, and you watch them. You watch how they play -- they run around a little bit -- and what do you want? You want a good bird dog, and you want one that's gonna be aggressive? Pick the one that's the friskiest, the one that's in games the most -- not the one that's over there sleeping in the corner. You want a pet to sit on the couch, pick the one that's sleeping in the corner. That's -- so, you get the pick of the litter, you got yourself a pretty good bird dog. We got the pick of every donor civilization on the planet because it's hard to get here, you had to be inspired to come. We got the vigor from the planet to come to America. Whichever generation it was, and then we taught our children that same thing.
The radicalism of Republican lawmakers in Washington tends to help explain the breakdown in American governance at the federal level. But to find breathtaking extremism, you'll have to look outside the Beltway.
The new Iowa Republican Party platform raised some eyebrows overnight, as we learned that it "intentionally questions [ http://www.radioiowa.com/2012/05/21/iowa-gop-platform-takes-a-shot-at-obamas-citizenship/ ]" President Obama's citizenship, putting an entire state party apparatus on record as Birthers. To be sure, it's disheartening to see the Iowa GOP drift so far into madness.
It calls for the abolition of the federal Departments of Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Energy, Interior, Labor, and Commerce. It demands a phase-out of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and immediate provisions to make Social Security voluntary. Though it's a bit confusing on this point, it seems to call for the abolition of public education, or, as it often refers to them, "government schools."
It calls for U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations and the repeal of all hate crimes and non-discrimination legislation. It endorses a Fetal Personhood Amendment. It demands permanent restriction of total federal spending to 10% of GDP (the draconian right-wing Cut, Cap and Balance Act would limit it to 19.9% of GDP), and reversal of the Supreme Court precedents that made possible the New Deal and civil rights laws.
At a certain level, I can appreciate why party platforms, especially at the state level, seem largely irrelevant, and have little practical value. It's not like GOP officials in Iowa are bound to honor (or even read) its provisions.
So why does it matter that the Iowa Republican Party platform is a ridiculous wish list of loony right-wing fantasies? A few reasons, actually.
For one thing, party platforms are shaped by party activists, who happen to be the folks who vote in primaries and elect policymakers at every level. Reckless activists tend to support reckless candidates who in turn pursue reckless policies.
For another, some of the same party officials who help write party platforms tend to seek elective office themselves. If they're pushing for bizarre, right-wing ideas in the platform, they'll probably push for bizarre, right-wing ideas when in office.
And finally, there's simply the matter of perceptions and fairness: if a state Democratic Party approved a radical, left-wing platform that called for a 100% top income tax rate for the wealthy and the elimination of the military, not only would we hear plenty about it from major media outlets, but Democratic officials would be pressed with one simple question: do you support or oppose that state party platform?
With that in mind, maybe major GOP candidates in Iowa -- including, say, those seeking Iowa's electoral votes -- should say whether they're on board with the wish list in the party platform?
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We must stand up and fight against this anti-American known as Barack Hussein Obama!!
White supremacist gets 40 years in suburban Phoenix bombing In this July 16, 1997 file photo, Dennis Mahon, a white supremacist from Tulsa, Okla., talks to the media. May 23, 2012 PHOENIX – A federal court judge on Tuesday imposed a 40-year sentence on a white supremacist who was behind a 2004 bombing that seriously injured Scottsdale's diversity director. A jury found Dennis Mahon, 61, guilty in February of conspiracy to damage buildings and property by means of explosives; malicious damage of a building by means of explosives; and distribution of information related to explosives. Dennis' twin brother, Daniel, was found not guilty of a single count: conspiracy to damage buildings and property. Dennis Mahon maintained his innocence in court moments before he was sentenced. "I didn't do this crime. I can't apologize for something I didn't do," he said. A pipe bomb was addressed to then-Diversity Director Don Logan, who is black, and was delivered to his office on Feb. 26, 2004. When Logan opened the cardboard box, the 1-inch-by-5-inch pipe bomb exploded in his hands, badly injuring him. He has since recovered. Two other city employees also were injured. [...] http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-05-22/white-supremacist-scottsdale-bombing/55143058/1 [with comments]
Local Pastor Calls For Death of 'Queers & Homosexuals'
Published on May 21, 2012 by catawbavalleynoh8
Pastor Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church -- located at 3283 Providence Mill Rd, Maiden, NC 28650 -- is seen here from a service posted to the church's website dated May 13, 2012 calling for the concentration and ultimate death of "queers and homosexuals."
North Carolina Pastor's Followers Defend His Anti-Gay Sermon After Video Goes Viral
Posted: 05/23/2012 11:31 am Updated: 05/23/2012 4:27 pm
Parishioners at North Carolina's Providence Road Baptist Church have come to the defense of Pastor Charles L. Worley, days after video footage of him delivering a viciously homophobic sermon went viral in the blogosphere.
Adds member Stacey Pritchard: "Sometimes you’ve got to be scared straight. He is trying to save those people from going to hell."
In the video, reportedly filmed on May 13, Worley calls for gays and lesbians to be put in an electrified pen and left to ultimately die off [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/21/north-carolina-pastor-gay-rant-starvation_n_1533463.html ]. "Build a great, big, large fence -- 150 or 100 mile long -- put all the lesbians in there," Worley suggests. "Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can't get out...and you know what, in a few years, they'll die out...do you know why? They can't reproduce!"
He also condemned President Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage, proclaiming, "I'm not going to vote for a baby killer and a homosexual lover!"
HuffPost Gay Voices reader Kaeylyn Hunt notes that several groups will be protesting [ https://www.facebook.com/events/436398123037160/ ] the Providence Road Baptist Church on Sunday, May 27 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. "Regardless if you are gay or straight, Christian or not... this rhetoric is dangerous and harmful," planned demonstrators, who note that the rally will be peaceful, write on Facebook.
Pastor Sean Harris Tells Congregation to Punch Their Gay Sons
Published on May 2, 2012 by littlebluealien
NOTE: I'm posting this NOT as an endorsement. I think this is one of the most offensive things I've ever seen from the pulpit. I'm just sayin....
Pastor Sean Harris of Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, NC tells congregants to break the limp wrists of effeminate boys and essentially "beat the gay away" from their kids. He has offered a lame apology (see justification) on his blog at http://pastorseansblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/important-clarification-to-sundays.html . I hate to tell him, but his "clarification" just reinforces the thrust of his violent message.
Christopher Hitchens (born 1949) is an author, journalist and literary critic. Currently living in Washington, D.C., he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens is also a political observer, whose books — the latest being "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" — have made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits.
In 2009 Hitchens was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the "25 most influential liberals in U.S. media." The same article noted, though, that he would "likely be aghast to find himself on this list" and that he "styles himself a radical", not a liberal.
I love this moment in the political season because the polls pour in and invariably something tucked in among the questions catches my eye but doesn’t grab the headlines.
I have selected two that get us away from the presidential race, both of which highlight just how much trouble the Republican brand continues to find itself in despite the party’s many legislative and statehouse victories in 2010. Public sentiment is slowly drifting away from the Republicans in a way that must be giving the party’s long-range strategists sleepless nights.
When it comes to (READ ITEM), which party do you feel is most attuned and sensitive to issues that affect this group.
Here is the list of items the poll-takers read and the way people answered:
The chart illustrates just how narrow Republican support is. Respondents viewed Republicans as more sensitive to religious conservatives, people in the military and small business owners. That’s not enough for a winning coalition. For everyone else — including the middle class, young adults and Hispanics — Democrats won out. Democrats even scored higher than Republicans among some groups that conventional wisdom associates with supporting Republicans, like retirees and stay-at-home moms. (I wish that the pollsters had also asked about men and racial groups, but unfortunately they did not.)
Next, I’m going to read you a list of issues. Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, for each one, please tell me whether you personally believe that in general it is morally acceptable or morally wrong.
Here are the issues and how people responded:
Of the 18 moral issues, Democrats were more permissive than Republicans on 14. No surprise there. But what was a bit surprising was that on seven issues, independents eked out a small margin of permissiveness over Democrats. (This may be due in part to the fact that some devout Democrats like blacks are rather conservative, socially speaking.)
Republicans were only more permissive than Democrats and independents on three measures and they all had to do with the killing of people and animals — the death penalty, buying and wearing clothing made of animal fur and medical testing on animals. Interpret that as you will.
Independents were closer to Democrats than to Republicans on 13 of the 18 issues outlined. The only exceptions were medical research using embryonic stem cells, the death penalty, suicide and human cloning. (On cloning animals, Democrats and Republicans were both less permissive than independents, and in equal measure).
When people are asked to identify themselves by political ideology, Americans may appear to be center-right, but independents look more like Democrats than Republicans on moral issues.
This does not bode well for Republicans as the composition and conscience of the country continues to change. We are slowly becoming less religious, more diverse and increasingly open-minded.
That is completely at odds with today’s Republican Party.
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